The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-06
THE PENALTY OF FAME
How Mrs. Cleveland is VigOr-
Ously Sought After.
THE ILL-MANNERED FEMALES
Who COnspire to Make the Life of
the Presidents Wife Undesirable
"A Tough Experience.

Through an :. MT of travel, says a
correspondent II che Philadelphia
Press, happened other night to be
on board the sound steamer Pilgrim
daring the trip when she carried among
her distin guished passengers the Presi-
dents wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Folsom, and General and Mrs. Greedy
with whom Mrs. Cleveland and her
mother have recently been visiting in
Marion, Mass. After boarding the
steamer, wholly unconscious that 1 was
to have such distinguished feIlow-pas-
sengers, l got to the upper deck, found
camp chair and sat watching the
pier, ready to enjoy the agony OF any
one left behind. The sight OF a fat man
and his wife, four children ana six
baskets, getting to the end of the pier
out of breath and red as a lobster, Just
in time to see the boat move out OF her
dock, has always seemed to me to con-
stitute one of the chief pleasures of
travel by boat-to those who are on the
boat. had no sooner settled myself to
enjoy the pleasures of the chase-thatis
to say, the chase of some one else after
the PiLgrim-that l noticed that the
comparative ease with which | had
found q place was due to the fact that
some interesting sight had attracted al
most everyone on deck to the other side
of the boat. | could see literally hun
dreds of people pushing and crowding
each other fifty feet away from me, and
| was languidly interested in knowing
what the fuss was all abont. 1t might
be, thought l, thata waiter had tumbled
down with load of dishes, or there was
wandering musician with parucu-
larly ugly monkey, or crazy man with
speech. AS the hour drew near tor
the Pilgrim to start, however, th5 inter
est in that something on the other side
of the boat seemed to increase, and
even my curiosity was aroused. l be-
gan to suspect that there must be small
poI somewhere in my nelghborhood
which made other parts OF the boat
more desirable when the truth came to
me in a casual remark OF young
woman who, having pushed and
worked at the outskirts of the crowd uu-
til she was red with indignation and ex-
turned out to be her father-and re-
marked that she didn't believe that
! she was half as good looking as the
newspapers had made her out 10 be.
who is not so good loOking?" said
the old gentleman. Why" said the
young WOMAN, Mrs. Cleveland, the
| Presidents wife. Shes over there, bul
the crowd is so gr at around her that l
can't get within fifty feet Of her. When
get my breath IL try it again"
1t was q case of sour grapes. The
young woman couldn't ca CHI glimpse
of the Presidents wife and came to the
conclusion she could not be so good
looking rs the newspapers had made her
cut to be.
So Mrs. Cleveland vas on board and,
so luck would have it, was On the same
boat 10 which at least 10 900 of my fel
low citizens would have wildly rushed
had they known that the Presidents
| wife was to be there. There seemed to
be thousands of women on board the
! Pilgrim, to Judge by the way III which
they crowded for ward to that upper
| deck. and L took in the scene with
added interest and amaZemest. Now
that l knew what all the fuss was about,
it's absurdity was more striking than
ever.